Register for railway-passenger service



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L. J. OARTER. REGISTER FOR RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICE.

No. 416,991. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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No. 416,991. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS JOHN CARTER, OF DENISON, IOVA.

REGISTER FOR RAILWAY-PASSENGER SERVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,991, dated December 10, 1889.

Application fi e July 23, 1889- Serial No. 318,388. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS JOHN CARTER, of Denison,in the county of Crawford and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Register for Railway-Passenger Service, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved passenger-register, the arrangement being such that the number of passengers on board a train at any station may be quickly registered, and hence at the end of a division the conduotor has no difficulty in making up proper returns. The register may also be employed as a check upon the operations of the conductor, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, two sheets, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a face View of a register cinbodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of a register-section, the side plate or cover being removed and parts being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional View on line 3 3 of Fig. Fig. 4 is asectional view on line at 4 of Fig. Fig. 5 isasectional view on line 5 5 of Fig, Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 6 6 of Fig. 2. Fig. '7 is a side view of one of the gears, and Fig. 8 is a detail view of the operating-pawl. Fig. 9 is a perspective view showing a series of register-sections or registers proper placed -in a box and in horizontal position as required for practical use. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the case of one of the register-sections and the gears detached from their pivots or journals. Fig. 11 is a cross-section on line 11 11 of Fig. 10, but showing the abnormal or operating position of the movable parts in full lines. Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the operating-pawl.

In practice my complete register will be composed of any required numberof separate registers 10. As a rule the number will be the same as that of the stations on the line of railroad on which the complete register is used. The several separate registers or registers proper 10 are arranged side by side in a wooden case, as shown in Fig. 9, and the case is suitably constructed to adapt it to be carried conveniently by hand and to be locked to prevent tampering.

In practice when the box is opened for use or inspection of the register itis laid horizontal, so that the front edges of the cases of the registers proper 10 are upward, as in Fig. 9. The case of each register proper 10 is rectangular, oblong, and narrow. Each contains five gears or toothed wheels, all mounted on three studs d b c, which are arranged in triangular relation parallel to the front of the case. Three of these wheels-to wit, 11 12 13- indicate units, tens, and hundreds, respectively, and are journaled on the same stud b, opposite a cross-slot in the case through which the teeth of said wheels may be seen as they successively rotate. A fourth wheel 14 is mounted on the stud a behind the stud b and meshes (see Fig. 6) with the middle or tens wheel 12. The fifth wheel 18 is mounted on the stud 0 near the middle of the registerease, and meshes with the hundreds-wheel 13 of the series 11 12 13. The wheels 14 and 18 are merely transmitters of motion, since the use of one 18 is to operatively connect the pawl 24 with the other gears, and the use of the other 14 is to connect the tens-wheel 12 and hundreds-wheel13. For this purpose the gears 14 and 18 have each an extratooth. The extra tooth of gear 14 engages at each rotation the teeth of the hundreds-wheel 13, and the tooth 19 of gear 18 similarly engages the tens-wheel 12.

To rotate the gear 18, and thereby produce the desired registration, I employ the sliding stem or rod 20 and pawl 2%, (see Figs. 8 and 12,) the latter being pivoted to the former, which is arranged to slide through the sides of the register-case and is operated against the pressure of a helical spring 22, which oncircles the stem, as shown best in Fig. 2. A thumb-piece or lever 21 is hinged to the front of the case and provided with a lug, to which the stem 20 is jointed, as shown in Figs. 5 and 12. By pressing on the thumb-lever 21 it pushes the rod inward, Fig. 12, and thus causes the pawl 2t to operate the wheel 18 through medium of the pawl 21. The latter has a tooth (Z, said tooth engaging one of the teeth of the wheel 18 at each downward throw of the thumb-piece 21, the pawl being normally held in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 2 by the spring 22, and when the latter is compressed the parts assume the position shown in full lines, Fig. 11; but as the pressure upon the thumb-piece 21 is relaxed and the spring 22 acts to throw the stem 20 to the position in which it is shown in the drawings an incline faced leaf 6, which is formed upon the pawl 24, will bear against one of the teeth of the wheel 18, and said pawl will be forced back against the tension of its spring, clearing at this time the wheel 1 8. Each time the wheel 18 is advanced one step a corresponding advance will be imparted to the wheel 11, and at every tenth step of the wheel 18 the wheel 12 will be ad vanced one step by the projection 10, and as the wheel 12 is advanced the wheel 14 will be correspondingly advanced, the wheel 13 being advanced one step at each rotation of the wheel 14-, inasmuch as the projection 15 engages one of the teeth of the said wheel 13 at every rotation of the said wheel 1'1.

As before stated, the wheels 11, 12, and 13 represent units, tens, and hundreds, respectively, and consequently at every throw ofthe thumb-piece I advance the units-wheel one step, at every tenth throw the tens-wheel is advanced one step, and at every one hundred throws the hundreds-wheel is advanced one step. In this way an accurate register is secured, all retrograde motion of the wheels 11, 12, and 13 being prevented by springs 26, that carry projections 27, said projections entering the spaces between the teeth of the number-carrying wheels.

In operation, if a passenger gets on at A, going to G, the conductor will operate the thumb-piece 21 of registers representing stations C D E F G, which will register one passenger on board the train at B C D E F G, &c., and so on through the entire division, a reading of the several registers enabling him at the end of the division to tell the number of passengers he has had upon his train at each station. At the division where his run ends a report is to be made to the proper officer of the number of passengers he has had at each station.

As a check upon the conductor, an employe' of the company may pass through the train and register the passengers between A and B and report the same to the proper oflice, to be compared with the report of the conductor, and so on over a part or all of the division.

It will be seen that the alignment and inclination of the register-levers 21, as shown best in Fig. 9, adapts them to be operated successively by a single sliding movement of the thumb (or other finger) over the levers from left to right, (with the application of sufficient pressure to overcome the tension of the springs Thus, if it is desired to register a passenger going from the second station B to the last station 11 of the line, the conductor (or other operator) places his finger 011 the lever 21 of the second register, and then moves his linger rapidly over all the levers to the right, thus effecting the same operation of the wheels of each individual register.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An improved multiple register consisting of a series of registers proper arranged side by side, each containing suitable registering mechanism composed of toothed wheels, a sliding spring-retracted stem and pawl for operating it, and a corresponding series of thumb-levers, which are hinged to the fronts of the register-cases and adapted to act on said stems and all aligned and inclined in the same direction, whereby two or more may be successivelyoperated by the same manual movement, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a register-case and its contained mechanism, consisting of toothed meshing wheels, a pawl, and a springretracted stem or red arranged below said mechanism and sliding in said case, of a thumb-lever which is jointed to the projecting end of said stem and hinged to the edge of the case-front and inclined at an angle to it, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

3. In a register, the combination, with the nui'nber-earrying wheels 11, 12, and 13, of a wheel 18, which engages the wheel 11, a proj ection. carried by the wheel 18 and arranged to engage the wheel 12, a wheel 14, which engages the wheel 12, a projection carried by the wheel 11 and arranged to engage the teeth of the wheel 13, and a means for advancing the wheel 18 step by step, substantially as described.

4:. In a register, the combination, with the number-carrying-wheels 11,12, and 13,0f a wheel 18, which engages the wheel 11, a projection carried by the wheel 18 and arranged to engage the wheel 12, a wheel 14, which engages the wheel 12, a project-ion carried by the wheel 11 and arranged to engage the teeth of the wheel 13, ameans for advancing the wheel 18 step by step, a stem, a spring arranged in connection therewith, a thumbpiece to which the stem is connected, and a spring-pressed pawl carried by the stem, substantially as described.

LOUIS JOHN (JARTERI \Vitnesses:

FRED BERG, HENRY NOBLE. 

